Vibrio cholerae

Vibrio Vibrio is a rod shaped bacteria that are also gram negative. They naturally appear in marine or estuarine environments. Also to note there are around about 12 species vibrio that have been known to cause diseases in humans which cause around about an estimated 80,000 illnesses, 500 hospitalizations and 100 deaths ever year in the US. The main reason that people get infected by vibrio is from coming into contact with seawater or through consuming raw or undercooked seafood. Vibriosis usually

Shrimp farming constitutes major economic activity in aquaculture in countries like China, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, Ecuador and India, representing 80% of the global shrimp production (Dastidar, Mallik, and Mandal 2013). Ecuador has a long history in aquaculture, especially in the production of farm-raised shrimp that is consider an important premium product for the Ecuadorians’ economy. It is the second highest non-oil export product, only after bananas (Lopez, Ruiz, and Moncayo 2016). It is

Arjana Zyka Scientific Reasoning and analysis Essay on climatic changes. Man Against Nature; Nature Against Man Life on Earth, as we know it, is possible thanks to the natural effect known by the term greenhouse. The effluent gases, mainly water vapor (H2O), carbon dioxide (CO2), and gases such as methane (CH4), nitrogen oxide (N2O) and tropospheric ozone (O3), allow solar energy to illuminate the Earth with visible light but also pressure infrared heat.1 This phenomenon keeps our planet sufficiently

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE ANALYSIS OF THE SUBUNIT B FROM CHOLERA TOXIN PRODUCED BY Vibrio cholerae O139 CELIO CABRAL OLIVEIRA NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE ANALYSIS RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FALL 2014 INTRODUCTION Cholera is a tropical disease that causes critical dehydration. The bacterium, which can be found in contaminated water or food, produces the toxin that causes unusual fluid secretion (1). Even though cholera still causes several deaths, about 80% of the cases can be treated with rehydration therapy

Title: Dangerous Water (Vibrio vulnificus) Nekita Baksh Keiser University Dangerous Waters In 2006, a mortgage broker in his 30s fell into a harbor in Hawaii six day after a sewage pipe failure had allowed 48 million gallons of sewage to flow into the harbor water. The man was admitted to the hospital, and within days he died from massive organ failure caused by septicemia. The man had a bacterial infection called Vibrio vulnificus. In order to

and cholera is now understood to be an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae (Tuthil, 2003). V. cholerae is a Gram-negative, monotrichous bacillus bacterium. Epidemic cholera can only be caused by two serogroups, serogroups O1 and serogroup O139 Vibrio cholerae (Finkelstein, 1996). Cholera is transmitted by the fecal-oral route through the ingestion of food or water contaminated with V. cholerae. Advanced water and sewage treatments have eliminated the spread of cholera in industrialized

Cholera The disease, cholera, is an infection of the intestines, caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae. As stated in Microbes and Infections of the Gut, the bacterium is “a Gram-negative, comma- shaped, highly motile organism with a single terminal flagellum” (105). Cholera is characterized by the most significant symptom that presents with the disease, diarrhea, and victims can lose up to twenty liters of body fluids in a day. Cholera can be a serious disease, due to the serious dehydration

The migration of a population displaced by a natural disaster such as the occurrence of the magnitude 7.0 earthquake that hit the people of Haiti did introduce mortality rates due to unhealthy and unsanitary conditions the refugees lived under in camps. The overcrowded living conditions facilitated a quadrupled spread and transmission of infectious disease such as cholera bacteria inflicting diarrhea. These infections are easily spread through contaminated water. Emotional stress which has a great

Cholera Outbreak in Haiti Vibrio cholerae is a bacterium that infects the intestines of humans (CDC, 2016). While there are several strains of vibrio cholerae, only two types have been known to cause cholera outbreaks and only one (type O1) is responsible for outbreaks globally (WHO, 2015). Cholera infection is an acute diarrheal disease (CDC, 2016). It is extremely virulent and can affect children and adults with equal severity if left untreated (WHO, 2015). Vibrio cholerae has a short incubation period

In the recent years, there are prevailing epidemic called Cholera in third world countries such as Haiti, Viet Nam and Zimbabwe. It is estimated that 2.8 million cases and 91,000 deaths annually due to cholera in endemic countries. Nearly, 11 million cholera cases occur in 2002 alone. The endemic countries is usually a developing countries, which is at risk because they are lacking access to safe water and sanitation facilities. The effected populations were mainly consisted of low income resident